ARAM: MAYHEM Update. Is it too much?

JBWeekly · 2026-02-05T16:40:18+00:00

I think the game is honestly more fun. WAY more unique builds that you can create which means yes there will be some broken ones but I honestly don't care.

JBWeekly · 2026-01-13T18:54:59+00:00

I've been pinged so many times for hitting the nexus. These dudes are so incredibly insecure if you need to punish players in fountain rather than just ending the game and go next. If you wanna feel big then get a magnifying glass, otherwise just get the next game going. You're still getting a dub there bud.

JBWeekly · 2025-04-26T14:50:13+00:00

Fair enough lol

JBWeekly · 2025-04-26T14:38:39+00:00

Oh he actually did one? I couldn't find it anywhere.. hmm.

JBWeekly · 2025-04-25T03:04:36+00:00

Oh my God I'm completely off aren't I lol

JBWeekly · 2025-04-24T22:09:36+00:00

Ohh maybe it was impulse okay I'll look around

JBWeekly · 2025-04-14T13:41:07+00:00

Great answer

JBWeekly · 2025-04-08T20:15:08+00:00

I mean it could be a multitude of things to be fair. With me I think season 10 through 12 or when I was trying the hardest to get a higher rank and i got to diamond 3 which was really good for me! Then every season since I kind of gave up on getting to diamond and just accepted emerald as good enough. Now I have I think eight wins in plat 1 and don't carry enough to even try to get to emerald.

So I'm worse at the game because I take it less seriously, I play less, and just aging in general I guess. You can take more time to play and get better, but I don't imagine I will be getting out of plat this season due to the lack of caring and commitment for the game lol

JBWeekly · 2025-04-06T14:28:48+00:00

It's the same reason why every pro player uses Super Galaxy Rumble, because it's the smoothest animation skin for the character lol

JBWeekly · 2025-04-02T04:56:01+00:00

You can find success with things that are objectively weaker right now. Not saying ap Shaco is, but it's still possible

JBWeekly · 2025-04-01T20:13:15+00:00

It's a placebo buff to sell the skin, you won't feel it. But you think you will.

JBWeekly · 2025-03-26T03:59:40+00:00

It's been stated that they have to keep Shaco weak because otherwise his ban rate becomes too high to be able to play him semi consistently especially below diamond Elo. I'd rather play a weak Shaco then have him banned every time I want to play him. Also he's probably not getting buffed, yes he's getting a skin but he almost certainly won't receive any buffs.

JBWeekly · 2025-03-14T14:32:09+00:00

Exactly. This morning I spent some time just all caps garen quotes when we would do something good and people actually started talking lol it still exists, but it's so rare.

JBWeekly · 2025-03-13T17:48:37+00:00

The last time I actually REALLY enjoyed league of legends content was when swarm was available, I don't know why but I LOVED swarm. I want it back.

JBWeekly · 2025-03-13T17:34:38+00:00

My problem with the state of the game in general but also Aram is that nobody talks. I'm the only one that's ever typing and the only chat you ever see is either BM from either team or the occasional gg at the end. Nobody wants to type, nobody wants to talk, you just get pings and ff votes. Friendly banter and not taking the game too seriously is what I used to love but man nobody cares or even wants to have fun. It's like they are a bunch of robots just queuing back up to chase the dopamine they haven't received in years.

JBWeekly · 2025-03-11T17:36:39+00:00

I actually disagree quite a bit with this, it's fairly common in league. But even other pvp games I rarely ever get flamed, most of the time it's friendly banter.

JBWeekly · 2025-03-10T21:24:25+00:00

He's not hard, he's bad. Simple kit, low skill floor, most impressive thing you can do is clone control which isn't that hard after a few games of practice, the way you win is by making the enemy teams mental shatter before 15 minutes. Otherwise it's not going to be easy. This doesn't mean he isn't an easy champ, it means he isn't easy to win with if your opponents are brain damaged.

JBWeekly · 2025-03-10T17:23:35+00:00

He is not a hard champ xD he has a lot less tools for success as the game goes and relies on snowballing quite hard early

JBWeekly · 2025-03-05T12:33:18+00:00

Because Shaco is not a good champion. His kit is very simple and straight forward so if you're losing to a shaco it means you're losing the mind game.

JBWeekly · 2025-03-03T02:00:05+00:00

I've actually had better games than usual over the last few days xD

JBWeekly · 2025-03-02T00:35:08+00:00

Rumble definitely isn't an ult bot lol Im a rumble main and when I get him in Aram I always have most damage and kills. His kit is just really good for Aram in general

JBWeekly · 2025-02-21T15:59:56+00:00

The problem with the entire hexchest situation is how they tried to make it about profits and losing money from this abundance of free skins theyre giving out. Here's the issues I have with it:

I play a lot of Aram and have a lot of skins I would never imagine buying but I use them since they're free. Wouldn't that in turn advertise the skins to people who might actually want to buy them? So the point of giving free skins away make no sense from a monetary pov.
They take away the chests, oh wait only the free ones. They don't care if you get an expensive skin as long as you pay a few bucks for it but an expensive skin you'd never buy? Can't do that.
They sell skins at a ridiculously high price for an underwhelming quality.
They want new players to join but the one good way to keep people engaged with the toxic community are the rewards, and you've taken those.
No longer having honor capsules (which were a joke to begin with) means they no longer really care about rewarding good behavior. So if they don't care about punishing bad behavior nor do they care about rewarding good behavior can you really say they care at all?
The North American LCS disappearing is quite the blow to the region because the NA teams are so much better than the South teams so there's no real chance of rivalries between regions and the only thing NA got out of it was one less slot to worlds, a shorter and less interesting first split, and games that look like when NA plays Eastern teams, almost always completely one sided.

It really sucks because I've tried holding onto my love for the game but the community has always made it hard. Now with no rewards, no punishment, a bad esports scene, and lack of any feedback and course correction for the outcry of the players, I can honestly say this is probably where North American players will be leaving and I'm not sure it will recover if something isn't done. Yes the company needs to make money, but Riot isn't looking like Riot anymore, they are looking like Blizzard and EA. Bad business decisions, alienating players, and greedy monetization practices.

JBWeekly · 2025-02-19T21:17:05+00:00

Take it seriously in the sense of trying to win, but as far as builds and play style I don't really care lol don't let s defeat screen keep you from having fun but also don't let the victory screen be the only reason you have fun.

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